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Novelist and journalist, longtime VTer, musician, dad to giants.
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Best seat in the house. Taking the day’s last ferry home. #ilovermont

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This week’s Friday review: a debut YA novel that’s an ideal summer read. You’ll recognize the authentic teenage struggles, you’ll encounter vivid and robust Greek islanders, and you’ll see a determined teenager growing up whether the adults help or not. Full review on my @goodreads account.

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This week’s song is guaranteed to make you move — and be grateful for your ears. #52covers youtu.be/9P_4D26hApY?...

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So far i am loving the stupidity of AI www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/s...

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This week’s song will rock your soul. #52covers youtu.be/9kn7E-OauJI?...

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This week’s Friday review: today nearly 29 million Americans suffer from alcohol use disorder. I thought it was time for me to read the bible of recovery. Full review on @goodreads — mostly about how much I learned from this book.

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

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Champlain last night.

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This week’s song is a ‘60s classic remade by two great current bands. Harmonies that could slay a dragon. #52covers youtu.be/zusFHHAhim4?...

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Moon through apple blossoms

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This week’s Friday review: a great American story that spans from pre-revolutionary times to the present, and the connecting thread is a place rich with heartfelt story, vividness, and some touching magic realism. Highly recommend. Full review on @goodreads

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This week’s song is one of the best that came out of art rock, reimagined by two folkish women. It’s so good. #52covers youtu.be/SqQFWXWVBNA?...

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Today is #ArmenianGenocide Remembrance Day, the day Armenians around the world remember the 1.5 million Armenians systematically annihilated by the Ottoman Turks. I’m a grandson of two survivors. Below is an essay I wrote about my family and the Genocide. newsweek.com/souls-vanished…

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Very proud of my mighty niece www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/20/s...

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This week’s Friday review: a rereading of this lovely collection by an Irish Nobel Prize winner. Skillful, touching, very satisfying. Full review on my @goodreads account.

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What?!? My latest book for sale on Amazon for $1.99? Get em while they’re hot.

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Garden Buddha contemplates rebirth, and the desire for rebirth.

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Once again proud to be an alum of @middleburycollege.bsky.social

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Who knows if the cameras panned over to my corner of the stage during "Let Go" with Frou Frou? But if you want to find out, the concert is streaming TONIGHT and...I think it was really good. I enjoyed the whole thing immensely and danced off to the side of the stage during Thievery Corporation.

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Vermont on the verge of April. (That’s Camel’s Hump in the distance)

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Remember when songs had you dancing or drumming or tapping your toes, while the lyrics contained biting social criticism? #52covers youtu.be/m7_jhpvsFrM?...

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This week’s Friday review: @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social pens book #25 and it is some of his best work: compelling, vivid, and full of heart. A Civil War story that is completely relevant today. Full review on @goodreads Highly recommend.

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Garden Buddha contemplates the certainty of change.

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This week it’s “an old English folks song” sung by tens of thousands of people, even the horn section. #52covers youtu.be/TTNqjzt9W5Y?...

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Readers rock! Booksellers rule! So grateful to have had a full house Phoenix Books on Saturday night, and so many of you met THE JACKAL'S MISTRESS. #bookstore #booksbooksbooks #vermont #virginia #romance #lovestory #civilwar #historicalfiction

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Here’s a great non-basketball idea.

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Speaks for its horrible self. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

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This week’s song is a tribute to the late great Roberta Flack. #52covers youtu.be/7BJpJSUGTEU?...

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Heroism takes many forms.

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This week’s Friday review: if you liked Braiding Sweetgrass, you will love this meditation on the generosity of nature, and how it’s a model for human behavior. Full review on @goodreads — do you follow me there? I have rated 750 books and reviewed 308.

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Hard to believe, but THE CURIOSITY is again optioned for film or TV production. I hope it goes all the way this time. Wish me luck! (And @Blink49)

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This week’s song I didn’t like, until I heard this super grooving version. #52covers youtu.be/rsxHWOPHcxA?...

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This week’s Friday review: a bestseller thanks to some sexy content, but otherwise a celebration of selfishness and deceit. Skip this one.

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A legal update on suits against the Trump administration (source is WaPo)

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The Price of Genius— a finished first draft. Lots of revision ahead. But I now know how it ends.

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This week is barely a cover — just a cast recorded offstage. But it’s in honor of Will Kiernan and Shreya Chowdhury. youtu.be/s9itu7pqhwY?...

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Son Will and his sweetheart Shreya got married today! Talk about big love!

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This week’s Friday review: a classic missing person story raised to art thanks to its insight into class issues and a setting so vivid you can smell it.

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